I had fun today making 18 linen napkins for my wife who is have a brunch for one of her girly groups on the first of May. She asked me if I would do them and we went up to TSWLTH with a 40% coupon in hand and bought three yards of really nice tan linen that was normally $14.50 per yard for 40% off of that. I tried to use the coupon but the fabric was already on sale for 40% off retail so I got a really nice set of Ginger Embroidery scissors with the 40% coupon. These are the ones with large finger holes. These potato-digger guy fingers, can never fit into the small openings on the small embroiders snips. Problem solved. That is how the store snares you into spending more money than you had planned. I was able to use some of that Gutterman Poly thread that I bought a bunch of in cones for really cheap awhile back. I was unsure what, if anything, I would use it for but it was to cheap to pass up. Now I know. I loaded a spool into the Janome 1600, set the speed at fast, and put the pedal to the metal. Man there was linen flying through the harp of that machine and I finished those napkins in about 3 hours. It was kind of jun just buzzing through that stuff. Still sewing but very diferent than matching points and all that quilty stuff. A good day none the less.
John